Archive: 2004-04-22 We’ve moved!
04-22-2004: We have moved! We are now fearthepenguin.net. It was a difficult decision, but due to the cost of keeping the spack.nu domain name, I’m going to have to let it expire. It was the cheap option when I first registered it. At the time, there was only one place to register .com, .org, and .net domains. As a result of the monopoly, prices were high [$35/yr with a 2 year minimum]. So I opted for a .nu domain which was cheaper [$25/yr, and they only required you register for 1 year]. Since then, there are MANY companies from which you can register domain names. As a result, the prices are MUCH lower [$8/yr]. In addition, the registrar for the .nu tld requires a payment of $10 every time you chance any technical details such as your dns servers. I simply can’t afford to keep paying this. So I’ve registered fearthepenguin.net.
Spack.nu will continue to function until May 2005 when it expires. However, please get everything changed over to fearthepenguin.net as quickly as possible.
I will miss spack.nu. After so many years [spack.nu was registered on May 18th, 1999] I’ve really grown accustomed to it, and as cheezy as it sounds, I do have fond memories of various aspects of spack.nu. Most notably the many video and image files I hosted on Sept 11th, 2001. I pushed out over 100GB of traffic that day, when most popular news sites were completely inaccessable. Sadly, there is only one remaining image, <a href=”http://www.fearthepenguin.net/wtc/wtcboom.jpg”>wtcboom.jpg</a>. I still get quite a few hits for that image, due to t
he many websites scattered across the internet that still link to that picture. Unfortunately, after next May, those links will no longer function.
Another bummer is that I will no longer have to explain what a “spack” is, although I will still leave the description at the bottom of this page.
Welp, that’s all for today. Hopefully fearthepenguin.net will bring new memories to cherish in the future…